Summary

The Lieutenant has ordered the unit to “drop” the house. The squad leader orders Cpl Sweet’s 2nd Fire Team to be behind the main effort with 1st Fire Team in support. Cpl Moore is in charge of 1st Fire and thinks it should always go first. The narrator orders 3rd Fire Team as the reserve unit. When they arrive at a house, they tear down the back door using M870 with lockbuster shells. The kitchen is clear. In the next room there is fire from AK-47s. The Marines take out two hajjis. No injuries among the Marines. Cpl Sweet gets caught in the thigh as he enters a bedroom. The other Marines take the enemy down. Sweet is bleeding profusely. Doc in Sweet’s unit orders Dyer to tend to the wound in the face of one of the hajjis.